Comments on: Office 2007 title bars

By: Kiwi Nick

Kiwi Nick — Wed, 19 May 2010 03:38:00 +0000

Ah. Jeff beat me to it.

Except that I use OpenOffice at home, on Linux.

By: Jeff "Is Mister Nice"

Jeff "Is Mister Nice" — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:14:18 +0000

Corporate tried to shove Office 2007 down my throat.

Bubble gum. It really looks pathetic next to my stark black mainframe sessions.

I tolerated office before.

Now, I’m just doing what I have told so many others.

openoffice.org

By: Bob M.

Bob M. — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:54:07 +0000

If you want ugly, a la “Windows Classic”, I can get you there:

1. In the Control Panel, open the “Accessibility Options”
2. Select the Display tab, check the “Use High Contrast” box
3. Click the “Settings” button, choose the “Windows Standard” theme”
4. Click OK and Apply the changes.

Voila, Office 2007 with a “Windows Classic” theme! The graphics are rough (low-res icons, no gradient shading), but everything’s functional.

By: David Powell

David Powell — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:10:19 +0000

Since probably Win 95, one of the first things I always did on a new computer was to go to appearance and change the title bar colour to fire engine RED. That way, I can find the wretched things. With Outlook, I’m forever “missing” the title bar when I go to move an e-mail window, because the thing looks just like everything in the sea of blue-grey below it. Even with two monitors, I overlap – main Outlook window, one or more open e-mails and an Explorer page or two which the e-mails refer to. By all means have a default pretty colour scheme, but let the user change it to ugly if they want to.

By: kez

kez — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:36:39 +0000

arghh i understand completely When I use office 2007 on my main ‘at home comp” it’s like using an entirely new program. ffs I have gotten to teh stage where I;d rather use my work ntoebook or do anything at work at my station because they are both running office 2000/ saves me spending 5-10 mins looking for the rifght tab or setting to do it on my home computer.